Plagiarism stink spreads as skeletons tumble out of academic cupboards ,COPYCATS INFEST CITY VARSITIES

• Plagiarism stink spreads as skeletons tumble out of academic cupboards
• COPYCATS INFEST CITY VARSITIES
• By Mail Today Bureau in New Delhi ,Thursday ,November 27,2014 , Page 1,www.mailtoday.in
• This is getting murkier by the minute. Professor Pardha Saradhi, on whose complaint of plagiarism former Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental was briefly arrested on Tuesday, has now written a letter accessed by Mail Today to HRD Minister Smriti Irani requesting her "to help clean up the university of such plagiaristic activities".
  Saradhi has accused fellow professors in the Department of Environmental Studies of encouraging M.Sc. and Ph.D. students to plagiarise research papers.
  He has collated thesis papers by students and corresponding research articles from which they have allegedly been copied. Saradhi has requested the government to weed out such individuals from the university before plagiarism becomes the order of the day. "There are several anti-student and antiuniversity activities taking place in the University of Delhi which I have been opposing in the interest of the nation. I tried to seek the help of ex-MHRD Ministers but in vain. Complaints reach the university but no action is taken. Instead, students who are working with me and I have been targeted and harassed," Saradhi has written in his letter.
  "One professor," he writes, "was earlier caught for plagiarising research findings of others but he escaped scrutiny through his connections and manipulations. Then he and others in the department started training M.Sc. students, who are otherwise talented, to plagiarise scientific materials." Saradhi cites the example of a Centre for Inter-disciplinary Studies of Mountain and Hill Environment (CISMHE) student and the several articles from research journals which he has copied. He alleges the student and his guide were not even present in the university during the time the former claims to have carried out the research work.
  Not just DU
  Saradhi's fear is justified. Not just Delhi University, the plagiarism virus has spread across all leading universities in the city like Jawaharlal Nehru University, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and Jamia Millia Islamia. Senior professors point out that in almost all cases of plagiarism, especially those involving powerful faculty members or administrators, the response always begins with a denial by authorities, till courts or independent bodies like Society for Scientific Values (SSV) pursue the matter to the logical end as happened in the Pental case. The malaise has also spread to dissertations presented by research scholars.
  The Co-ordination Committee of Teachers' Associations of Delhi (CCTAD) which represents the four leading universities has raised the plagiarism issue in a letter to the Human Resources Minister Smriti Irani on November 20, 2014. The letter states that "the growing instances of plagiarism and consequent decline in the academic ethos are detrimental to research and steps must be taken to curb it.'' According to sources, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) perhaps represents the worst case scenario. It has not only protected and rewarded the accused plagiarists, but also victimised the whistleblowers. MAIL TODAY had reported on February 1, 2013 regarding the plagiarism charges against two Deans of Indraprastha University, Prof. Saroj Sharma and Prof. Suman Gupta. Sources disclose that after a year of enquiry the charges of plagiarism were diluted in both cases but could not be completely denied and the two professors continue to call the shots in IP University.
  Instead, the teachers who complained against them had to face memos and show cause notices and were accused of making false complaints of plagiarism. The university has also sought to develop a policy on plagiarism that focused a lot more on what to do with the complainants, rather than on those who are found guilty of plagiarism.
  Interestingly, the enquiry committee against plagiarism invented terms such as "tolerable" plagiarism, "negligible" plagiarism, non-plagiarism, etc., to dilute the charges against Suman Gupta and avoid punitive measures. Saroj Sharma was let off with a "suitable advisory".
  However, Sharma said that all allegations against her were false and she has been given a clean chit by enquiry committee. "These were motivated allegations against me. It was a third party alleging me of plagiarism of someone else's work. I have got a clean chit," said Sharma. Professor Suman Gupta did not respond to calls from MAIL TODAY.
  JNU was shocked recently when in one centre of the university the Chair reported there was more than 50 per cent plagiarism in many of the dissertations. Yet, these students obtained not only pass grades but even good grades.
  The JNU teachers' association has recently vowed to fight plagiarism in an ultimatum served to JNU VC, and has also raised it in the Coordination Committee of Teachers' Associations of Delhi (CCTAD) that it currently leads on behalf of various universities of Delhi.
  "The current VC of DU, Dinesh Singh, had his share of trouble for dressing up his publication lists; the Director of DU's NSIT was removed some years ago on charges of plagiarism; the Pondicherry University VC is currently facing plagiarism charges. So are many faculty and students in many other universities," a senior faculty member said.
  Jamia Millia Islamia has also reported cases of plagiarism with the help of newly-introduced software. The university used the software before final submissions and all plagiarised papers were returned to students for rework. In January, authorities found 59 of the total 61 project works done by faculty members and students in the past three months contained materials lifted from various sources
  
  
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‘Plagiarism’ case against former V-C Pental goes back 5 years

Written by Aditi Vatsa | New Delhi | Posted: November 26, 2014 3:17 am,

The Indian Expres,New Delhi,26-11-14, News Line,Page 3

Former Delhi University vice-chancellor Deepak Pental’s arrest on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in a plagiarism case might have come as a surprise to many, but this case was first taken up in the local court at least five years ago.

In 2009, P Pardha Saradhi filed a private complaint before a Delhi court under various sections of the IPC, including forgery, criminal conspiracy and criminal breach of trust.

Saradhi, who now teaches in DU’s environmental studies centre, alleged Pental had plagiarised his work on genetically-modified Indian mustard,  with the help from a research scholar, KVSK Prasad, the other accused in the case.

Saradhi told Newsline that Prasad had worked under him on his PhD thesis and went on to conduct research under Pental. “In connivance with Pental, the research scholar took the seed of codA transgenic Indian mustard developed by my team under India-Japan Cooperate Science Programme. Pental allowed Prasad to use this GM seed for carrying out further research, fully aware that all GM material are put under the tag of ‘Hazardous’ under Environmental Protection Act (EPA),” Saradhi said.

“This was shown as work carried in Deepak Pental’s lab during 2001-2004. Verbatim sentences, exactly same data and similar figures and numbers were copied from the report submitted by us to DST under India-Japan Cooperative Science Programme,” Saradhi alleged.

In 2009, following a complaint filed by Saradhi in Delhi University, a committee was set up to look into the issue. Alleging that the university did not act on his complaint, Saradhi sought information through RTI requests.

He said: “When I saw that the university was not acting on my complaint, I tried to seek information on the action taken on my complaint under RTI Act, but the university still did not take any action. It was only after I sent an appeal to the appellate authority that a committee was formed to look into my complaint. It gave a clean chit to Deepak Pental.”

The counsel for the accused, Samrat Nigam, told Newsline that the committee’s report had indeed given a clean chit to the former V-C.

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Ex-Delhi University Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental's Arrest for Plagiarism

Court Orders Ex-Delhi University Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental's Arrest for Plagiarism

All India | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: November 25, 2014 15:17 IST

chor guru Deepal Pental Ex VC , DU, arrest for plagiarism

NEW DELHI:  Former Delhi University vice chancellor Deepak Pental has been detained in a Delhi court on a plagiarism complaint by a fellow professor.

A local court has reportedly ordered Mr Pental's arrest on a petition by Professor P Parthasarthy.

Mr Parthsarathy has reportedly alleged that Mr Pental and his student had plagiarised another researcher's work on biotechnology.

Mr Pental, a professor of genetics and a noted researcher, was the vice chancellor of Delhi University in 2005-2010.
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*But many others CHOR GURU like Ram  Mohan Pathak( Ex Professor,Mahatma Gandhi kashi Vidya Peeth,Varanasi )  ,Anil Kumar Rai Ankit ( Profesor,MGAHVV,WARDHA) Anil Upadhyay ( Professor,Mahatma Gandhi kashi Vidya Peeth,Varanasi ),Professor Ramji lal (VBSPU,JAUNPUR) , Prof. Prem Chand Patanjali ( ex vc  vbspu,jaunpur) Dr. Ramesh Chandra ex vc bundelkhand university , Jhansi,etc are free & enjoy their plagiarism's fruits as a professor and puraskar etc.